Manannán mac Lir presides over Emain Ablach, the island of apple trees beyond the western sea, where he feasts with the immortal sídhe and no sickness or sorrow may enter.
Bran mac Febail sailed to Emain Ablach after a woman of the sídhe sang to him of an island without grief or death, where apple trees bore fruit and blossom together — but when his companions at last returned to Ireland, the first man who leapt ashore crumbled to ash as centuries caught up with him.
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